[governance] who owns the new gTLDs?

[McTim]

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Dominique Lacroix <dl at panamo.eu> wrote:
> Dear Sala,
>
> Thanks Carlos for the mention. Yes, I distributed a paper leaflet to some
> friends in Paris, during the WSIS.
> The demonstration is clear.
> Two journal articles are going to be published. Please, just wait a few
> days.
> I asked the question about tax heavens to Fadi Chehadé in Paris, and to 3
> members of ICANN board/GNSO.

Why would you have any reasonable expectation that ICANN would have
anything to do with this issue?

ICANN must have a fair, open and transparent application process for
new TLDs.  They can't discriminate against folks who decide to
incorporate in a specific location!!  Can you imagine the litigation
if they did?

Is anyone even surprised by these numbers?

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel




>
> Le 04/03/13 22:02, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro a écrit :
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 5:04 AM, Carlos A. Afonso <ca at cafonso.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Dear folks, this may or may not pertain to any current thread of
>> "dialogue", but is nonetheless quite interesting, and perhaps revealing of
>> the nature of the gTLD business.
>>
>> Journalist Dominique Lacroix (Le Monde) has put together some statistics
>> regarding the economic interests behind the gTLD craze unleashed by ICANN:
>
>
> This is interesting Carlos and Dominique. Do you have the URL to the piece
> that Dominique wrote?
>>
>>
>> - 393 US applications are by US companies' branches based in European tax
>> heavens (including 76 bids by Amazon Luxemburg);
>>
>> - the total of gTLD applications by US companies' branches based in tax
>> heavens is 891; just 390 applications are formally from US-based companies'
>> headquarters;
>>
>> - in summary, 47% of all gTLD applications are operations by US companies'
>> branches based in tax heavens;
>>
>> - of the total 1930 bids, 1455 (75,4%) will be run by one of seven US
>> backend operators.
>>
>> fraternal regards
>>
>> --c.a.
>>
>>
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